The Money Pit (Page 3)

Oh I guarantee you there are snakes out there.  Probably some poisonous ones.  It's part of living in FL.  There are 4 species of poisonous snakes in North America.  Florida has all 4. 

You just use your head.  Don't go tromping thru tall grass without tall boots.  Stay away from places where they likely have nests.  If you see one, back away.  We teach the kids these things from an early age.  If we find a dangerous snake it's eliminated with extreme prejudice.  I'm a live and let live guy, except when it comes to things that might try to kill me.

Same rules apply for alligators (however our pond is too small to support one any bigger than maybe 3 feet.)

When I said I wanted an outdoor shower this is not what I meant...

We now have walls..

And now doors and windows....

Framing and elec rough in inspections passed.  Now onto finish electrical, AC work and then drywall.

Oh and they'll be ripping down all the vinyl siding this week as well.

Funny, I was thinking the house from Fletch 2...

"I wish I could blame it on the home inspector (it found a lot of little things we knew about) but without tearing down walls you can't see some of these hidden things.  I scrutinize things pretty close and not even I saw half of these issues. "

So what good is a home inspector? They take on no responsibilty.  Seems to me if I can't see how can they. Most useless expense and waste of time that I ever saw. 

Useful for things like plumbing issues as well as electrical issues.  You can use devices to test for shorts and open circuits etc.  He did get me some other things to look at like only having 2 nails in each wind strap in the attic.  Now they require three.  Things like that.

However I will say when buying a wood home you need to somehow open up the walls.  Otherwise walk away.

Or I can continue to let the Termite company fix the damage as they have already agreed to.

A few new pics...

The new paint color:

New porch ceiling:

Brick is finally going back up...

It was a chimney.  We had the fireplace removed.  Don't really need one in FL and it messed up the flow of the room. It has since been fixed.

Wow!  It is really coming along.  It is going to be gorgeous. 

Do you have a final countdown?

Brick and drywall are supposed to be done within 2 weeks (I've heard that one before).  After that we have to do paint, wood floors, carpet, kitchen cabinets, crown molding and baseboard.  All before we move in.

So thinking end of July at the earliest.

This little condo we're in is getting smaller and smaller by the day.

Holy drywall Batman!  Now I can't see through my house anymore...

Yay!

Isn't it weird how when the walls go up it actually makes the room feel bigger?

Been a while since my last update.

Last week was move in week... It was not 100% ready but our lease on our condo was up.  There are still things to be done (need to finish one bathroom and the garage is a wreck) but we are living in the house.

I will NEVER NEVER NEVER do that again.

Album of progress:

https://www.facebook.com/seandotson/media_set?set=a.10151834283995031.1073741825.500450030&type=3

Amen, brotha!

Congratulations on wrapping up that chapter of your life. 

Oh it's not "wrapped".  But the hard part is over.  Thanks...